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Anti-Marcion
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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[2464] The “tanquam sit,” in its subjunctive form, seems to refer to the concession indicated at the outset of the chapter.
[2465] Omnino sine causa.
[2466] Illum, i.e., Marcion’s god.
[2467] Captare.
[2468] Deum ex operum auctoritate formatum.
[2469] Non statim ratione, on a priori grounds.
[2470] i.e., Marcion’s god.
[2471] Compare Rom. i. 20, a passage which is quite subversive of Marcion’s theory.
[2472] This is an ironical concession from the Marcionite side.
[2473] Another concession.
[2474] Tertullian’s rejoinder.
[2475] De isto.
[2476] They called it κόσμος.
[2477] By sapientiæ professores he means the heathen philosophers; see De Præscript. Hæret. c. 7.
[2478] In his book adv. Hermogenem, c. 8, Tertullian calls the philosophers “hæreticorum patriarchæ.”
[2479] Formidaverint.
[2480] Substantiæ.
[2481] Dei.
[2482] The Greek name of Jupiter, Ζεύς, is here derived from ζέω, ferveo, I glow. Juno’s name, ῞Ηρα, Tertullian connects with ἀήρ, the air; παρὰ τὸ ἀὴρ καθ᾽ ὑπέρθεσιν ῞Ηρα. These names of the two great deities suggest a connection with fire and air.
[2483] i.e., Cybele.
[2484] The earth’s irrigations, and the washings of the image of Cybele every year in the river Almo by her priests, are here confusedly alluded to. For references to the pagan custom, see White and Riddle’s large Lat. Dict. s. v. Almo.
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